A rath is a roughly circular enclosure, usually of early medieval date, defined by an earthen bank and sometimes a surrounding ditch, and most commonly interpreted as a farmstead. What makes this particular example quietly arresting is not the enclosure itself but what survives inside it: a small circular stone hut, tucked against the inner face of the bank, with walls still standing to 1.4 metres and showing slight corbelling, a technique in which each course of stone is laid slightly inward over the one below, allowing the structure to narrow towards a roof without the use of mortar.

The hut measures 4.6 metres in internal diameter, a compact but functional space. Only the north-west half of its wall remains traceable; the rest of the interior is scattered with loose stone from which no further structures can be read. More puzzling is a length of drystone masonry in the south-west quadrant, extending four metres inward from the bank and apparently retaining a terrace on its northern side. Its purpose is not known. The site was recorded as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, published by J. Cuppage in 1986, which catalogued the dense concentration of prehistoric and early historic monuments in this part of County Kerry, one of the most archaeologically layered landscapes in Ireland.